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单词 catholic
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catholicadj

comprehensive; universal

broad in sympathies, tastes, or interests

(Catholic)

of or forming the ancient undivided Christian Church or a Church claiming historical continuity from it, esp the Roman Catholic Church

of or forming the entire body of worshippers that constitutes the Christian Church

Originally denoting in the New Testament an inclusive church containing Greeks as well as Jews, the term ‘catholic’ was used in an exclusive sense in the third and fourth cents to define a church whose agreed beliefs and doctrines excluded anyone who held contrary opinions. These two senses continue today in the notions of the church as catholic (i.e. universal and inclusive) and Catholic (i.e. having a specific and exclusive historical identity) — Professor John Rogerson
Catholicism /kəʹtholəsiz(ə)m/ noun
[Old French catholique via late Latin from Greek katholikos universal, general, from katholou in general, from kata by + holos whole]
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